Forgive the Moon by Maryanne Stahl
Synopsis:
From Publishers Weekly
Every year, Amanda Kincaid vacations on Long Island with her extended family. She's there again this year at the start of Maryanne Stahl's thoughtful novel Forgive the Moon, but things are different: her mother is dead, her husband has stayed at home in Atlanta and her college-age daughter is living with her boyfriend in Boston. Only her 10-year-old son, Damien, is still by her side as she mulls over her rocky relationship with her husband and her memories of her schizophrenic mother. A romance with a local doctor provides a bit of relief, but Stahl doesn't let her protagonist slip into an easy happy ending.
"Stahl takes us to the beach for only a week-but she shows us a lifetime of longing." (Rita Ciresi, author of Pink Slip and Sometimes I Dream in Italian)
Book Excerpt:
Chapter One
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I stood breast deep in the rolling waves, past the breakers, past the rocks, my face tilted to the white August sun, breathing in brine. I had drifted eastward about fifty feet from the spot on the beach where our blankets lay,where my siblings and their spouses tended their children and their coolers and their grievances. Then, testing with my toes to see whether I was over my head, I touched the soft ocean bottom and stood, facing land.
Topics/Categories:
Children, Divorce, Identity, Love, Mental Illness, Sailing, Sisters, The Sea, Women
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Awards:
Georgia Author Nominee for Best First Novel
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Original Publish Date:
06/01/2002
ISBNs:
ISBN-10: 0451206339 ISBN-13: 978-0451206336
Formats:
Trade Paperback, Mass Market Paperback
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